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Explosive volcanoes on Venus might be what spewed out all that phosphine

Elizabeth Rayne

Volcano on Venus

Earth's 27.5 million year 'heartbeat' aligns with mass extinction events

Jeff Spry

Tyrannosaurs survey a volcanic landscape - stock illustration

Tag: Bad Astronomy

A nuclear test creates a forbidden crystal. This is the fivefold way.

Phil Plait

May 18, 2021

The mushroom cloud that formed after the first atomic bomb test, called Trinity, in 1945 in Alamagordo, New Mexico. Credit: US Air Force, US Army, Department of Energy and National Park Service

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Paleontology

Swallowed rocks just about prove that 'long neck' dinosaurs really did migrate

Elizabeth Rayne

Apr 16, 2021

Tag: Paleontology

What happened to the Moon’s innards billions of years ago is being revealed by Apollo rock samples

Elizabeth Rayne

Feb 28, 2021

Apollo astronaut with sample

Tag: Mass extinction

Tag: Extinction

Scientists determine explosive new mass extinction event 232 million years ago

Jeff Spry

Sep 22, 2020

Tag: Mass extinction

Tag: Extinction

Sweeeeet! Now we know how magical stone forests straight out of 'Candy Land' are formed

Elizabeth Rayne

Sep 13, 2020

Earth’s inner core is only a billion years old…way younger than most of us thought

Elizabeth Rayne

Aug 30, 2020

NASA view of Earth from space

Tag: stonehenge

Mysterious origins of the Stonehenge megaliths finally unearthed

Elizabeth Rayne

Jul 30, 2020

Tag: stonehenge

Tag: Bad Astronomy

New research shows Venus is still geologically active now, *today*

Phil Plait

Jul 22, 2020

A Magellan spacecraft radar image of Fotla Corona, a volcanic feature on Venus about 150 kilometers wide. Note the circular feature in the middle and the concentric cracks. Credit: NASA/JPL/Magellan probe

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Mysterious structures detected near Earth's core using bat-like echolocation

Jeff Spry

Jun 16, 2020

Ah, there it is: Geologists accidentally discover pieces of a continent that vanished 150 million years ago

Elizabeth Rayne

Apr 8, 2020

View of Earth from Space

Earth must have spawned life way later than we thought

Elizabeth Rayne

Mar 16, 2020

NASA image of Earth

Tag: impact craters

Incoming! Scientists pinpoint impact crater of ancient Asian meteor strike

Jeff Spry

Jan 8, 2020

Tag: impact craters

Tag: Bad Astronomy

One of Earth’s oldest rocks may have been found… on the Moon

Phil Plait

Jan 25, 2019

Rock 14321 (arrowed) as it was found on the lunar surface by Alan Shepard during the Apollo 14 mission. Credit: NASA

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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